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IT Outsourcing is Alive in Africa – When Verviant Delivers in Kenya

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Verviant is a Raleigh, NC based IT Consulting company, with sales and support offices in Rayleigh, NC, Chicago, IL & Washington, DC and a global delivery center in Nairobi, Kenya.

Verviant has a world-class information technology team, offering low cost offshore services – saving Global businesses 50-60% on product development costs and speeding their time to market.

 

Services include:

  1. Design: Web design and development, Database Programming, Web Marketing and Support
  2. Software: Custome and bespoke Software Solutions, proprietary and open source platforms.
  3. Mobile: Messaging, iPhone Applications, Blackberry Development, Mobile Websites

 

Verviant is also the developer of Pesapal: an online based service that will help you to buy goods and services on the internet safely using your mobile money account, making internet payments safe.

 

Jumuika Mobile Pays You If You Sign Up to Receive SMS Ads – A Kenyan Innovation

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Jumuika Mobile is a Kenyan based mobile marketing and SMS marketing software company founded in 2009.  Jumuika is a service that pays you each time you receive SMS ads on your phone. We also pay you when your friends or friends of your friends receive these SMS’s. What’s more? The SMS will be of your specific interests and delivered to your phone at the time you choose.

 

This is Jumuika

Jumuika is an opt-in (permission-based) mobile advertising service is owned and operated by Jumuika Media solutions, a company based in Kenya. Jumuika Media solutions provides technology-based marketing solutions to small and large organizations within East Africa. Our unique platform and industry expertise provide the tools and knowledge for your business to open a personalized communication channel with new and existing customers. This method of targeted, permission-based, context-driven marketing has been proven to yield great results! How it worksRegister with Jumuika.co.ke. Enter your mobile number, choose the categories/interests that you wish to receive ads about, and specify the number of ads and the time you wish to receive them and you can keep yourself informed wherever you are!

How to earn To earn points you could invite family and friends to register with jumuika, chat, send free sms, solve puzzles, e.t.c. As a bonus you get to enjoy FREE SMS daily.

Payouts Jumuika offers a variety of methods for its members to redeem their earnings. The most popular being airtime transfer to the members phones.

Other methods include shopping vouchers, donate to charity, mobile coupons, bank cheques, Mpesa and our very own J-store where one can purchase various mobile content using J-cash. To use some of the payout methods requires you to have reached a certain amount of earnings.

 

Advertisers

Offering the ultimate, interactive, one-to-one marketing experience, mobile is proving a brilliant channel for brand building and direct response. Mobile advertisements have demonstrated brand recall on a par with average advertising channels.

In short, it’s a medium advertisers can no longer afford to ignore.

 

To learn more about advertisers, please visit our advertisers section by clicking here

eVA Fund – Smart Technology Investments in Africa and Why They Could Fund You

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eVA Fund with Dutch origin is putting capital in some really promising startups in Africa (mainly Kenya and Ghana, for now). They have invested in Pesapal, Verviant, among others. Right on their site, they know one thing is going to redesign Africa – the undersea cables that will cut costs and improve bandwidth. In other words, if you do not get into the game now, you will regret it because very soon, the web solution in Africa will expand because prices will crash and more people will afford most of the services. And that will provide opportunities in the continent.

 

We think we need to bring this firm to you notice.

 

So what is the eVA Fund?

 

eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund) is launched in January 2010 by Vincent Kouwenhoven and Brian Hirman. Both founders combine years of experience in  business development, management consulting, online business, digital marketing and venture capital.

 

eVA Fund is dedicated to mobilize capital and experience in the Netherlands/Europe to invest in small and medium sized African internet related companies. eVA Fund focusses on development in terms of capital and business development support, i.e. knowledge, experience, access to proven business concepts/applications, and network.

 

The target region is sub-Saharan Africa. Please check out the overview of our investment criteria.

 

The ultimate goal of eVA Fund is investing capital and knowledge to strengthen small and medium sized internet related enterprises thus securing and creating jobs and income for large African communities and with that, generating attractive financial returns for investors.

 

The Criteria

eVentures Africa Fund considers applications of investment that meet the following criteria:

  • Existing business with a track record of 2 to 5 years (i.e. we do not provide seed capital for start-ups)
  • Businesses in sub-Saharan Africa (where we have a first focus on Ghana and Kenya)
  • Business focus: internet and/or mobile applications, platforms, e-commerce and solution-providers (i.e. not in infrastructure and hardware)
  • Sound strategy and business model
  • Profitable, now or within a limited period of time

 

Contact? Here is the link

 

E-Commerce in Kenya – A Presentation of Agosta Liko, CEO of PesaPal

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Pesapal is a mobile payment firm in East Africa.  It is a payment platform that enables Kenyans to buy and sell on the Internet using M-Pesa, Zap and Credit Cards. PesaPal keeps financial records and contact information safely and offers members a risk free payment option. Recently the CEO spoke at Mobile Monday.

Pesapal provides a simple, safe and secure way for individuals and businesses to make and accept payments in Africa. Pesapal payments work on the internet and directly on the handset. We partner with Banks, Mobile Network Operators and Credit Card companies to give consumers as many payment options as possible. For businesses, we offer timely settlement of any payments to their bank account of choice.

We have security features in place to protect our buyers and sellers by ensuring all information is encrypted and secured, with notifications sent for activities within their account.Pesapal is also PCI/DSS  Level 1 compliant

 

 

Foxconn Goes to Brazil with $12b to Create 100,000 Jobs. Nigeria Must Attract Factories and Not Just Sales Offices

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Foxconn Technology – the Taipei-based Taiwan company that assembles iPhone, IPad and many other electronic gadgets which are sold all over the world is investing $12 billion in Brazil. It has the potential to create 100,000 jobs, according to Brazilian officials. Brazil will offer tax incentives to electronics products makers in an effort to attract high-tech manufacturing into the nation.

 

As President Jonathan relishes in his re-election, this is the opportunity to get Nigeria ready so that such companies can invest in the nation and provide opportunities for our citizens.  Instead of attracting many companies that come to sell and run sales offices in Nigeria, the likes of Foxconn that will actually build factories is what we should be targeting.

 

But for this to happen, many things must happen. Nigeria must revamp its education, develop strong intellectual property rights, and provide necessary infrastructure. Until we have all these challenges fixed, opportunities like Foxconn will not be discussed in our terrain.

 

As wage rises in China and Asia, Nigeria with its population is well positioned to take advantage of these developments if it can position itself very. Just as KenCall Kenya has offered a lower cost alternative to European and North American call centers, the future of outsourcing could indeed be in Africa, because our wages are still comparatively low. There are many factories in Shenzhen in China that will examine the opportunity in Nigeria if we get the system ready, to invest. And Jonathan must do that.

 

 

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